We went shopping!!

Today, Andrea made us get up ridiculously early for a day off.  We were a bit miffed until....

....she told us we were going somewhere!!

So we got a bus into town and got off here

We had a chat with a bear on a windowsill.  We thought he'd been abandoned but apparently he's a fortune telling busker (you can tell by the bloo pants on his head) and he said we were going to have an excellent day today!!

Then we went down to the coach station!!!  We're going somewhere!!!

We had to wait a few minutes for our coach so we tied a CD to a railing.....

....and there's our coach!  We're going to London!!!

When we got on, we made sure we got a window seat

And we gave them a floppy disc!

And we're off!  There's the Royal Pavillion!

Wonder what route we'll take today.....

After a while, Andrea got out a box of jaffa cakes!!!

Hurraaayyy!!

Nomnomnomnom

nomnomnomnommmm.....

Oh coo..... that's Chinese we think.

And here we are going over the Thames!!

We're in London!!!

AND we got in nearly half an hour earlier than planned!!!

We walked up the road this way, past a book sale.  There weren't any that we wanted to read though

And then we stopped at the facilities at the train station, and left them a CD....

....and then we had to go get a bus!  Which one though?

Oh, we're getting the number 38 today!

We got on and tied a floppy disc to the rail.

Where are we going now?

OH!  It's the Royal Academy summer expedition!!!

String Beanie's never been to one of those!!!

They got a big red spot in the Courtyard!

We got our ticket for £3 off with our art pass, and they had a big crochet and fabric Tentacled Thingy in the main room!!!

I don't know what it is but it's brilliant!!!

And they had artists football scarves!!!

Coo..... don't like the dead bear picture though.....

It's the pink panther!!!!!

Oh wow!  I love that!!

OOOOooooooo!

It's a knitted person!!!

And a wizard!!!

Oh wow!!  That's Rufus 3rd!!!

He's AMAZING!!

There's his bum!!!

There's another doggy over here too! (we think he's called Gnasher)

He's a wooden one!

That's pretty too!

It's a Persian rug bear!!!!!!

And Sooty's!!!!!!!

OOOOooooooo!

We got a donkey too!!

Oh that's pretty!  (it's called Desire by Susanna Blunt)

OH!!!

After we'd had a good look round all the pictures, we went downstairs to use the facilities and left them a CD!

Then we went for an early lunch.  We don't know what it was but it was very tasty!!!  And the cayke was banarnana cayke!

Then we decided to go for a wander!

So we went to the bus stop and waited for another 38 bus

They got a floppy disc too!

We made a video!

And went past Pushkin House on the way!!!

Pretty sun effects on that tree there......

And then we got off here..... I vaguely recognise this place, you know.

That's Islington Business Design Centre!!  They got a Spice Girls expedition in there but we didn't go in.

We left a book on the railings at Islington Green!

And then went to the Cass Art Shop!!!  (we'll show you what we got later!)

They got a CD too!

Those are pretty gates......

Then we went back to the bus stop and decided to get the 476 bus because we've never ridden on that one before.

We gave them a floppy disc!!

Where are we going now?

Oh hang on!  We recognise where we are now!!!

We got off at Kings Cross Station!!!

And then decided to get a number 10 bus!!!!  We love riding buses!!!

They got a floppy disc too!!!

We went past some weird sculptures....

There's Ben's cookie shop!!!

We're at Marble Arch now but we're not getting off here....

And went past a whacky gothic building that's a bank now!

And got off here at a Buddist Rest and Rant place.  

Restful Ranting??  Is that like Mindful Meditation?

Then we walked round there corner....

And found we were at Horrids!!!

We watched a busker for a bit.....

And then went into the food halls!

It's brill in here!!!

Oh wow!!  What a wonderful peacock!!

CAYKES!!!

After we did a bit of shopping (we'll show you later!) we went for coffee and caykes.

Well, coffee and viennoisseries.  That's like kwussant and Panno shoko lah!!  We all got one each and shared the coffee!

After we'd rested our feet and paws, we had a little stroll down the road past a pretty church.....

See?  Told you it was pretty.

It had a little mosaic on the side!

They got a CD too

Coo....

And then we went to the bus stop to get a C1 bus....

We gave that bus a floppy disc!

And we're off!!!

Where we going now?

We got off at the last stop....

Victoria Station!  It's nearly home time.....

We used the facilities and gave them our last CD!!

And then we stopped in here to get some cheese for a pick nick dinner!!

And then we had a short walk down here....

To the Coach station!!

When it was time to board the coach, we got another window seat..... and spotted the floppy disc we'd tied on the rail when we came down this morning!!!  Wonder if somebody will take it?

Then we settled into our seat ready to go!!

And we're off!!

Here we go, crossing the Thames again!

And then we got a bit peckish!  We had a Black Bomber extra mature cheddar wiv Sussex Albert Sussex Honey bis kwits!  Nommy!!!

Later on, we had more jaffa caykes too!

nomnomnom!!

nomnomnom!

After that, we had a snooze while Andrea read a book.

We're out of London now, we think!

Oh!  Duke of Yorks with the funny legs!!!

And we're back at Pool Valley in Brighton now but we're staying on a bit longer....

We went past the Palace Pier....

And past the West Pier....

And got off here opposite where we live!  How handy is that?!?!

Pretty sunset, eh?

here's our shopping - we got some postcards from the RA

And some greeting cards too!

We got some paint from the art shop!  We're going to send some of these to Arnty Helena too because she likes to use paints.

And we got some mango chutney for us because it's yummy!

And some Korean sorce for Arnty Vicky....

What a fun day out!